Motivational Quotes

Courage

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Courage

Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

Lee, Harper

It takes courage to push yourself to places that you have never been before... to test your limits... to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to remain tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

Nin, Anais

A person who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.

The test of tolerance comes when we are in a majority; the test of courage comes when we are in a minority.

Stockman, Ralph W.

Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts.

Cicero

Woman and men of retiring timidity are cowardly only in dangers which affect themselves, but the first to rescue when others are in danger.

Richter, Jean Paul

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

Joel, Billy

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.

Nair, Keshavan

Courage leads to heaven; fear leads to death.

Seneca

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The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

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Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. [Ephesians 6:10]

Bible

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It is amidst great perils we see brave hearts.

Regnard, Jean Francois

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Courage is not limited to the battlefield or the Indianapolis 500 or bravely catching a thief in your house. The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests, like remaining faithful when nobody's looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you're misunderstood.

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Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.

Lewis, C. S.

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More firm and sure the hand of courage strikes, when it obeys the watchful eye of caution.

Thomson, James

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Courage is the capacity to conduct oneself with restraint in times of prosperity and with courage and tenacity when things do not go well.

Forrestal, James V.

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What you RESIST, PERSISTS. If you take ownership and deal with things that are bothering you, then, in the very process of dealing with them they very often will go away.

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The burden which is well borne becomes light.

Ovid

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Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.

Brande, Dorothea

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The more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire -- the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale

Blavatsky, Helena Petrova

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But screw your courage to the sticking-place and we'll not fail.

Shakespeare, William

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It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

Lindbergh, Anne Morrow

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Private bravery is often the price of personal victory.

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The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion. [Proverbs 28:1]

Bible

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The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

Horace

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You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

Bradbury, Ray

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I'd rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

Johnson, Lyndon B.

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To boldly go where no man has gone before.

TV series, Star Trek

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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Harold Wilson

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Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

Edison, Thomas A.

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As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to fly.

Akhenaton

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Fortune and love favor the brave.

Ovid

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Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

Stone, W. Clement

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Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.

Forbes, B. C.

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Gallantry to women -- the sure road to their favor -- is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

Hazlitt, William

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Most men have more courage than even they themselves think they have.

Greville, Lord

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I decided once and for all that I was going to make it or die.

Johnson, John

39.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Homer

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You cannot fly like an eagle with wings of a wren.

Hudson, William Henry

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Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.

Seabury, David

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At the bottom of not a little of the bravery that appears in the world, there lurks a miserable cowardice. Men will face powder and steel because they have not the courage to face public opinion.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

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A strong man and a waterfall always channel their own path.

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But you be strong and do not lose courage, for there is reward for your work. [ 2 Chronicles 15:7]

Bible

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Carlyle, Thomas